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1. 38 il brown says:
   May 22nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm

   WTF…… can you tell us your fav bands… we might die laughing …. have you ever heared Queen Albums? all of them .. man you must have a problem in your head which no Medical on this planet can help you. Queen remains one of the best bands ever and you really need to hear some albums no f**cken greatest hits but real albums.

   You are a shame to this site and this is from all of us Queen Fans F*** OFF.

   Brown

2. 37 Freddie Mercury's Ghost says:
   May 21st, 2009 at 1:24 am

   Oh! f*c$ off!

3. 36 Ernest Schmidt says:
   May 20th, 2009 at 6:23 am

   How many Queen songs can you say sound the same? Now - how many bands can you say that about - while their sound was recognizable - it seems to me that every one one of their soungs were very different. (except for Crazy Little Thing and Man on the Prowl) Hats of to them and by the way - what a voice.

4. 35 Lu says:
   May 19th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

   HOW DARE YOU??? - Ten reason why the author of the article “ten reason to hate Queen” is completely unaware of what he’s saying (numbers are related to his article…):

   1. Queen are the biggest band of everytime, and EVERY Queen album is great. And if you don’t know them, it doesn’t mean they’re not so. And if you can’t
   understand this, it means you understand NOTHING about music. Queen are extraordinary, magical and perfect artists and you CAN’T compare, not even for fun, to a X-Factor band…!!!
   And…have you got an idea of how great is Freddie’s voice?? Freddie’s voice is the best voice ever!!!!
   2. In the live Aid Queen made a wonderful performance, like everytime. And they made this magic in only 20 minutes! They’re so great that they can do it!
   3. what???
   4. WHAT?!?!?! Who matters if you don’t like Star Wars???????? It’s only a phrase of a wonderful song (Bicycle Race)!!! That’s no reason to say that!!!! And remember that often words hide deeper meanings… (metaphors…);
   5. Nobody could never replace Freddie, they only keep making some music, but Queen will always be Freddie, Roger, Brian and John!
   7. It’s a funny video! Very original, fancyful and inventive!! You talk just like an old unpleasant hipocrite.
   8-9. The dates of the musical has been already extended a lot of times, it’s a great musical and a tribut to the
   best band ever;
   10. what???

   I also make you notice that you, author of the article, introduced 10 reasons but mentioned only 9 points, also repeated (see 8-9). Where you didn’t miss the point, you only wrote “don’t let me talk…” and nothing else: it doesn’t mean NOTHING! Otherwise, you only gave meaningless reasons (just like “I like Star Wars”…) that don’t mean NOTHING too! So you wrote a long article to say nothing, that means that…
   1. you are completely unaware of what you’re saying;
   2. you are only envious;
   3. you haven’t got nothing to do! Instead of writing that trash, you can… fishing, playing basketball,
   shopping… or, better, LISTEN TO QUEEN’S MUSIC AND REALIZE THAT THEY’RE THE GREATEST EVER!!!
   I don’t know why you have been looking for non-existent reason to justify the rubbish you wrote, but you did wrong…! You wrote only blasphemies.

   Now, you can start to understand something about music, and change idea…!

   GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND FREDDIE FOREVER!

5. 34 MichealCaine says:
   May 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am

   What a great piece of s***
   hating Queen is normal, and having its own opinion on something too, everybody’s free.
   But saying the first crap thing that come in your mind to be read , and be proud to make a small event, thats pathetic.

   There’s not 10 points

   theres 10 minus

   “8 We Will…
   Don’t get me started on the West end musical

   9 We Will …
   I said don’t get me started”

   They don’t even have a common point with Queen

   minus

   “4 ‘Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars’
   Sorry Freddie, Jaws is one of the best films ever made IMO, and as for Star Wars, it was my pretty much my life growing up so you can sod right off.”

   Oh Jimmy Page don’t like potatoes, so his music sucks….

   minus hum all the points execpt maybe first one.

   Being frustrated doesn’t mean you have a good opinion.
   Try to learn how to make good writing.

   But its usual for a blog writer…

6. 33 yampster says:
   May 18th, 2009 at 9:33 am

   It’s a very old post Percy. All done and dusted by now

7. 32 percy says:
   May 18th, 2009 at 9:16 am

   I am not sure that I understand what Saul is trying to say…but he seems to know something is wrong at Anokrak Towers. As for multi posting being allowed on Anorak….I hope this is not true….I remember when I was hunted down, humiliated and publicly hanged for this crime by the great & good that run this site. It was a horrible experience and one that I would not like to see anyone else to go through, Anokak has the power to bully, belittle and ban any poster that it does not like, it is his site, so beware….and take care. If Saul would care to enlighten us all a bit more about what he knows….I for one would like to read it.
   As for the Queen….well I am a repulsive Republican, so I better keep schtum on that one.

8. 31 Blackthorne says:
   May 18th, 2009 at 4:49 am

   Replying to your opinions
   1 Queen never made a Great album
   A Night At The Opera is one of the best Album ever created, and you say that if you ask anyone they will say GH1 come on!!! you must ask to the Queen fans, for one reason we follow this band we know the discography
   2 That Live Aid Performance
   A lot of Artists have recognized that they stole the show and the media thinks the same.
   3 They broke the Sun City boycott
   Maybe they commit this mistake but they are most knew for their music than their conflicts.
   4 ‘Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars’
   It is the same reason that you don’t like Queen, is something personal.

   5 They reformed without Freddie Mercury
   They live for their music (Brian and Roger)

   7. That poster that came with Jazz
   Are you gay? or you are not open-minded?
   8 We Will…
   this rules!!!
   9 We Will …
   a classical
   10 Rock You!
   hahaha and the are scared to pass to the other side…it’s fiction!!!

9. 30 dairy says:
   May 15th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

   ooh, bring back the George Sampson fan club….

10. 29 Stephanie says:
    May 15th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    You are a pathetic piece of crap. I’m happy that you don’t like Queen because you don’t deserve the happiness that they bring to people’s lives. Go watch Star Wars, you stupid little butthole. May an army of hungry wombats slaughter you in your sleep.

    LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!

11. 28 Mrs. Fucking Roger Taylor says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    “But not me. To my mind Queen are the most over-rated acts in the history of popular music – and here’s why… [b]- COMMENTS: SHUT THE F-CK UP, YOU LITTLE TARD D: you just don’t appreciate music and nobody wants to listen to you and your opinions.[/b]

    1 Queen never made a Great album
    Queen were a singles band, like Brother Beyond or any current X-Factor wannabe. In fact, they probably would have been on the X-Factor if they were around now. Singles and videos they had plenty of – but how many times do you see a Queen album in a top 100 albums list? Night at the Opera, oh give me a break. Ask anyone what their favourite Queen album is and nine out of ten times they will say Greatest Hits. [b]- COMMENTS: Pfffft, what do you know?
    Have you ever gone to Argentina? Anywhere in South America?
    Do you even exist in this world?
    COS IT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE IT, AS YOU’RE RANTING SHIT ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE INCORRECT.
    I can’t even choose a favourite album without freaking out, but I wouldn’t say Greatest hits, lol. I’ve listened to Queen since I was five and you are apparently not an experienced person within Queen’s music.

    2 That Live Aid Performance
    I can almost feel the stones being readied, but c’mon, a bit of over-the-top, vaguely fascistic grandstanding and we all have to hail it as the greatest concert performance ever. Nonsense! For starters it was only 20 minutes long! No, I say no! It was just a bit less rubbish than most of the other stuff on there – and nowhere near as good as U2’s rudely truncated stint earlier in the day. Here’s a reminder. -link- [b]- COMMENTS: Excuse me? They practised for a whole week before the performance and everyone who were sane at that time thought Queen made the most outrageous performance that night. Freddie’s voice was in great shape and I still can’t forget that version of ‘Hammer to Fall’. Get a life.
    PS: IT WAS 17 MINUTES, YOU FOOL.[/b]

    3 They broke the Sun City boycott
    In the words of uber fan Ben Elton – a little bit of politics. They played Sun City during apartheid, Steve Van Zant told me in his protest song, Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City. Do I need to explain that they it for money, and it was a very, very bad thing to do. No matter how much Brian May back-pedals and says he doesn’t agree with a cultural boycott, one was in place. [b]- COMMENTS: ….. no comments needed.
    PS: for your information, they kept their political opinions to themselves.[/b]

    4 ‘Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars’
    Sorry Freddie, Jaws is one of the best films ever made IMO, and as for Star Wars, it was my pretty much my life growing up so you can sod right off. [b]- COMMENTS: Why do you even care whether Freddie liked Star Wars or Jaws?
    Seriously, you need to get a life.
    [/b]

    5 They reformed without Freddie Mercury
    What kind of money grabbing foolishness is that! They are touring now! With some bloke out of Free! It’s like INXS without Hutchence, The Jam without Weller, or Zeppelin without Plant! They’d never have done… what? …ooh right…. [b]- COMMENTS: Lol.
    Frankly, I don’t think they are doing it for the money anymore, they are way more successfull and rich than you’re ever going to be. They are definitely doing it for the fans AND because they enjoy making music!
    And you should go to bed now.[/b]

    7. That poster that came with Jazz
    Okay, I must admit that at first my parent’s copy of Jazz on vinyl was intriguing, especially with that fold-out poster of lots of ladies on bicycles… naked ladies on bicycles. But to a sensitive pre-teen boy it was downright confusing. I liked what I saw, but didn’t really understand it. Was this image taken from Grandstand? Was this a proper sport? Surely that’s unhygienic? Why would they confuse a boy like that![b]- COMMENTS: THEY WERE DOING THIS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A FUN IDEA FOR THE MUSIC-VIDEO. And it fit the theme of the Album.
    Jazz = SEX.[/b]

    8 We Will…
    Don’t get me started on the West end musical

    9 We Will …
    I said don’t get me started…

    10 Rock You!
    Okay then, you asked for it. What a load of old twaddle. The music of Queen saves the future world or some such Bill And Tedesque nonsense. And, to make it even worse, it’s written by bloody Ben Elton. They played some of it at the ceremony that launched the start of London’s Olympic hosting, and if that’s the best we can offer the world when 2012 I’m booking my holidays now!” [b]- COMMENTS: (quoting Roger Taylor): “Grow up. You invented the bitterness, I pity you. You suck. You are boring and you are trying to infect us.”
    SUCK ON THAT.[/b]

12. 27 JK says:
    December 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Oh dear.

    If you really think Queen never mad a decent album then clearly you are clearly judging them solely on the greatest hits compilations. A Kind of Magic, Innuendo and ESPECIALLY Night at the Opera were all brilliant albums even distanced from their singles tracks. Take out Bohemian Rhapsody and Night at the Opera is still one of the best albums ever recorded imo.

    As for reforming without Freddie, people need to see that for what it is. It’s three friends (plus backers) reuniting as a tribute to all their old bands.

    What a load of twaddle!

13. 26 Miguel says:
    December 22nd, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    Fuck You!

14. 25 Gareth Hill says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Lots of people hate Queen… The sort of people who lash out at quality, at brilliance, at innovation…

    It’s easy to pick faults. However, if I was going to list 10 of them, they would be far different from yours sir. You have not put a lot of thought in have you…

    A singles band? Well it’s obvious to me that YOU are the one judging Queen by Greatest Hits. If that’s all you’d heard, then I wouldn’t blame you.

    Most genuine Queen fans will tell you that many of their favorite songs are hidden within great Queen albums. Even Queen themselves spoke about the Album as a whole being the creation they wanted people to take in.

    By the way, have you actually seen We Will Rock You? What a brilliant rock show. Don’t take my word for it though. Ask the 100’s of thousands who have seen it in many different languages around the world.

    Queen were never popular with the press and with the so called Music gurus. They knew that and guess what. They didn’t care because they were popular with the PUBLIC!! That sort of counts…

    So anyway, rant over, i’m going back now to listen to a couple of Queen tracks I love:

    Let me see, Nevermore, Spread Your Wings, The Millionaire Waltz, Dreamers Ball, Great King Rat, Was It All Worth It… To name a few…

    I guess you wouldn’t know those songs huh… They’re not on Greatest Hits!!

15. 24 Maharet says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 1:34 am

    I would like to point out one very interesting fact.
    Have you ever tried listening to ‘Flash’ as a singles album… It doesn’t work.
    You need to listen to the whole album.

    Flash is my favourite album any day.
    I love Day at the Races, Night at the Opera, Jazz, The Game.
    I will listen to these above Greatest Hits.
    Yes I like Greatest hits, but listening to the whole album of the other albums give you a feel for thier music so much better…

16. 23 Jenny says:
    December 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 am

    Queen!! a singles band?? really? If they were it’s not REALLY a bad thing is it? HOWEVER… i’d like to point out a lot of the Albums did very well, one i’d like to point out is ‘The Game’ often lauded as their best, and it achieved a worldwide number 1.

    And In anycase, if you can publish your views on something lots of people love (Queen) then that means Freddie is entitled to say he doesn’t like Jaws or Star Wars… heaven forbid he might have liked them… but they rhymed… It still makes you a hypocrite.

    And the material that Queen + Paul Rodgers have put together is actually excellent… they can keep those albums coming… they put on a damn good live show too. I am too young to have been able to see Freddie… but, Paul knows what he’s doing, he’s not a replacement, and it make sense as he seems to have been a long standing friend of Brian’s.

17. 22 Saul says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 1:34 am

    c——-r, I realise you have to stick to the party line. Come on Paul, sort your site out while it is still salvagable.

18. 21 Saul says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 12:51 am

    I quite agree, Mr Sorene is very adept at revealing a different tack to the mainstream news. However when he allows duplicity to progress his site he becomes complicit in everything we abhor. Certain indidividuals have ruined this site,I am reluctant to name names, however I’m sure regular contributers know who they are. I did have pleasure reading Anorak, unfortunately this has been diminished by obvious multi posting, whether site approved or not. Mr Sorene, your site is crumbling, you have the power to resurrect it, use it.

    Here is a simple solution. Come clean on all the multi posting and you may win back your once, advertising revenue winning posters.

19. 20 chenier says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 12:22 am

    Saul

    I concluded quite a while back that I don’t have responsibility for what other people do; I do have responsibility for what I do. So, just before I head off to bed, here is the skinny:

    You may no longer derive pleasure from reading Anorak, but that doesn’t mean that Anorak has no worth, not least because the site will inform a passing reader a hell of a lot better in 15 minutes than a couple of hours on the mainstream media.

    Some of Paul’s stuff is remarkable; it deserves to be supported. He tackles stuff that other sites don’t, which is the bottom line on what free speech is about.

    It’s easy to spot the Chinese censors closing off access to vast chunks of information; it’s less easy to spot the self-censoring where people just don’t raise nasty questions. But the self-censoring is just as much a threat to living in a free society…

20. 19 Saul says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 12:11 am

    What’s IM!!!!!

21. 18 Diana says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 12:07 am

    Saul and Chenier: GET IM!!!!!

22. 17 Saul says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    With the greatest of respect c——–r, when in a hole stop digging. The self inflicted shooting is quite topical. I suggest Anorak inspects its feet.

23. 16 chenier says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    Saul,

    Staying with the pantomime theme:

    ‘Giants receiver Plaxico Burress, who accidentally shot himself in the thigh Friday night at a Manhattan nightclub, will surrender to the New York City police on Monday morning and will be charged with criminal possession of a handgun,’

24. 15 Saul says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

    The NHS is the envy of the world. I am glad they were able to help you.

    As for the Captain, I’m afraid he will go down with the ship, unless head office intervene and avoid the iceberg that is looming on the horizon. What say you Mr Smee, sorry Mr Starkey.

    Well at least the S was right.

25. 14 chenier says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Saul

    I do hope not; last Sunday night I was in hospital whilst the NHS’s finest provided me with some blood pressure. I’m very grateful to them, and they did a grand job, but I’ve had quite enough of impending doom for the time being…

26. 13 Saul says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    I admire your loyalty c——–r.
    Time will tell.

    Tick Tock. The end of the plank is near.

    Floreat Etona.

27. 12 chenier says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    I rather suspect that the title the Realist was intended to be satirical, but then when you are dealing with a guy who reported on the vexed question of why Charles Manson wasn’t pulled for parole violations before he and his friends murdered Sharon Tate- possible answer, because the higher echelons in the local police force thought he was going to off a member of the Black Panthers instead- I doubt that he feels that there are too many satirical websites around…

28. 11 Saul says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Even Krassner was a Realist.

29. 10 chenier says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Well, still with Paul Krassner,

    ‘One person’s paranoia is another person’s satirical prophecy.’…

30. 9 Saul says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    Nice try c——–r, I think we all know that Anorak is the patient. Unlike Mark Twain, I think the reports are true.

31. 8 chenier says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Groucho, nail, head…

    Well, as a Realist I can’t run to “My Acid Trip with Groucho”, due to my never taking an acid trip with Groucho, but you get brownie points for the Skidoo pun on nails with a head, and I get brownie points for linking Anorak to the Yippies, via Paul Krassner, patron demon of satire, may his one hand never cease jerking…

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